IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

The IAMCR Diasporas and the Media Working Group invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the IAMCR 2012 conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.

The Diaspora and Media working group is calling for papers for a session of the working group meeting in Istanbul 2011, to continue to foster research and debate in this exciting new field.

Media research and theory has given a great deal of attention over the last three decades to increasing flows of media products and services on a global scale, it has only recently shown interest in the flows of people which the media tend to follow.

The Diasporas and the Media working group is calling for papers for a session of the working group meeting in Braga 2010, to continue to foster research and debate in this exciting new field.

Media research and theory has given a great deal of attention over the last three decades to increasing flows of media products and services on a global scale, it has only recently shown interest in the flows of people which the media tend to follow.

Migrants, refugees, sojourners, exiles, expatriates and especially diasporas of people who are living outside their actual or imagined homelands form markets for cultural or language-specific programming, both from global and local sources, and generally make use of the media in new and interesting ways. What is more, they often establish new media networks and institutions and engage in the production and distribution of content that reflects their diasporic experiences. This fluid, adaptive relationship of media and people on a global basis has implications for national media and cultures, as we have known them, even for our understanding of the very concept of culture itself.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

The Diasporas and the Media working group is calling for papers for a session of the working group meeting in Stockholm 2008, to continue to foster research and debate in this exciting new field.

Media research and theory has given a great deal of attention over the last three decades to increasing flows of media products and services on a global scale, it has only recently shown interest in the flows of people which the media tend to follow.

IAMCR 2007 conference - ‘Media, Communication, Information: Celebrating 50 years of Theories and Practices’, in Paris, France, July 23-25, 2007.

The working group successfully conducted its second sessions in Cairo in July 2006, and is calling for papers for a session of the working group meeting in Paris 2007, to continue to foster research in this exciting new field.

Media research and theory has given a great deal of attention over the last three decades to increasing flows of media products and services on a global scale, although it has only recently shown interest in the flows of people which the media tend to follow.